The American Forest & Paper Association April 29 presented Ann Arbor-based book manufacturer Edwards Brothers Malloy with the association's 2013 Business Leadership Award, which recognizes outstanding paper recycling programs.

Bill Upton (left), vice president of operations for Edwards Brothers Malloy and John Edwards, president and CEO of Ann Arbor's Edwards Brothers Malloy (far right), receive an award from Mark Pitts, AF&PA executive director of printing and writing papers.

photo courtesy of Edwards Brothers Malloy

The award was presented to John Edwards, president and CEO of EBM, and Bill Upton, vice president of operations, at the Book Manufacturers’ Institute Spring Management Conference in Hilton Head, S.C.

Edwards Brothers Malloy’s Jackson Road plant in Ann Arbor is a "zero landfill" facility, and its other facilities use, reuse or recycle 97.5 percent of all incoming materials. An estimated 12,100 pounds of office paper was recycled in 2012 at the Jackson Road plant with a similar amount recycled at the company’s other manufacturing plants in Michigan and North Carolina. Altogether, the company recycled about 25 million lbs of paper or 27,777 pounds per employee.

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